Should LOL consider a better shared gold mechanic?

Linna Excel·May 7, 2015·1 votes·532 views

This is one thing I really like about SODA: http://soada.wikia.com/wiki/Gold#Shared_Gold_Mechanic:

What it does is it lets supports and carries both attack minions and the support can get fed just by pushing the wave (as long as the ADC gets the last hit). LoL seems to be dancing around the idea with things like and that one support mastery but riot isn't going all in on the idea. Maybe they should so we don't need a support only item so supports can get gold. Maybe something like that should be a core game mechanic and not something I ass a support am putting money into.

I mean we can still have good support items and utility stuff , let's just make gold gain aspect something you don't have to pay for.

4 Comments

Phoenix Kotori May 7, 20152 votes

Problem is shared gold is very tricky because it can easily invalid jungler role and bring us into a double support/double ADC meta and kill champion diversity.

Linna ExcelMay 7, 20151 votes

That could happen, but a jungler does so much more. Going 2 dual lanes might be an idea but you give up a lot of map presence because of it.

Phoenix Kotori May 7, 20151 votes

It's more likely we'd see "support junglers" like Nunu JarvanIV Nidalee Nautilus Maokai take smite still go for buff or occasional camp and convention jungler would probably struggle to deal with this meta.